Binding: Paperback
Description: In Little Dorrit Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached George Orwell A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. It follows Arthur Clennam who returning to England after many years abroad takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit his mother's seamstress who was born and raised in the Marshalsea where her father has long been imprisoned for debt. As Arthur soon discovers the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many from the kindly Mr Pancks the reluctant rent - collector of Bleeding Heart Yard to the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office and Merdle an unscrupulous financier. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Wall and Helen Small
Title: Little Dorrit
Author(s): Dickens Charles, Stephen Wall
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141439969
Pages: 1024 Pages
Publication Date: 1/27/2004
Category: Classic Fiction